There are many dedicated programs that only do flowcharts, and even Microsoft creates another program called Visio that's more flowchart savvy thanmainstream Microsoft Office programs – even then, we highly recommend that you create your flowcharts within your Office program such as Word, Excel, andPowerPoint! Why do we put forth such a recommendation? That's because Microsoft Office programs already have all the abilities and options you need to createalmost any type of flowchart you need – what's more, you don't have to buy and learn yet another program to do something that really is so simple!

Flowchart In Microsoft Word 2008 For Mac Update

Actually, adding a flowchart within a Microsoft Office program is as simple as adding a few shapes – we will use Microsoft PowerPoint in this example butyou could really be using Word or Excel to do the same task – even the Ribbon optionsyou will encounter are the same.

Microsoft word 2008 free download - Microsoft Office 2008 update, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2011, and many more programs.

If you already need to create a flowchart in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint – then the choice has already been made for you! Alternatively, here are some thoughtsthat will help you decide which of these three programs work best for your flowcharts:

• Word is great for simple flowcharts with few shapes as long as they all fit within the page constraints of Word.
• PowerPoint has similar slide constraints like Word's page constraints – but for larger flowcharts, you can use PowerPoint's hyperlinkingoptions that let you spread the same flowchart over multiple slides.
• Excel's large screen real estate within each worksheet does make it a great home for detailed or complicated flowcharts.

Follow these steps to get started:

Download Microsoft Office 2008 Mac

1. Let's start with a blank, new slide that just has a slide title and nothing else, as shown in Figure 1, below. If you are using Word,just substitute the blank slide area with a blank area on your document – Excel users can similarly use an available, blank range of cells in their worksheet.
2. 
   Figure 1: Empty slide with a title
2. In PowerPoint, Word, or Excel – access the Insert tab of the Ribbon and click the Shapes button –this will bring up the Shapes drop-down gallery that you see in Figure 2.
3. 
   Figure 2: Shapes drop-down gallery
3. Within the Shapes gallery, you will find plenty of shapes that are arranged in various categories. To create flowcharts, only twoof these categories matter to you – these are the Flowchart and Lines categories, highlighted in redand blue respectively within Figure 2, above.
4. Let us now explore various shapes available within these categories – first let us explore the Flowchart category. There are 28flowcharting shapes available here – hover your cursor over any of these shapes to see a tool tip that provides you with the name/description of the hovered shape(see Figure 3, below).
5. 
   Figure 3: Flowchart shapes are described within the tool tips you see
Note: Want to know more about all the flowchart shapes? Look at ourFlowchart Symbols: What They Represent? page.
5. Now select the Terminator shape within the Shapes gallery (see Figure 4).
6. 
   Figure 4: Select the Terminator shape
6. Your cursor will turn into a crosshair – drag and draw on your slide, document, or worksheet to place an instance of the terminator, as shown inFigure 5, below.
7. 
   Figure 5: Place a Terminator shape to start your flowchart
7. With your terminator shape still selected, start typing (we just typed 'Start'). Anything you type shows up within the flowchart shape, as shown inFigure 6, below.
8. 
   Figure 6: Text within your flowchart shape
8. Now add a shape to represent a decision. Choose the Decision (Diamond) shape option from the Flowchart categorywithin the Shapes gallery – then drag and draw to place an instance of the shape on your slide (or document / sheet) – then type in some text –we just typed “Are you happy?”, as shown in Figure 7, below.
9. 
   Figure 7: Text that makes you happy?
9. We now need to link the Terminator shape to the Decision shape using a 'connector' – to do so, access theShapes gallery (see Figure 2) and select the second option within the Lines category (seeFigure 8, below). This shape is a connector that has an arrowhead at one end. We need the arrowhead end of the connector to be 'connected' to yourDecision shape – and the non-arrowhead end will emanate from the Terminator shape. We won't get into details about how connectorswork in this tutorial – you can learn more about connectors in our UsingFlowchart and Connector Shapes Together tutorial.
10. 
    Figure 8: Choose a connector with an arrowhead
10. Figure 9 shows a connector that links both our shapes. To make sure that your connector indeed “connects”, select any shape, andhit any of the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge the shape -- you will find that the connector reorients according to the new position of your moved shape.
11. 
    Figure 9: Shapes connected to each other
11. Similarly, add two more shapes that connect to your existing Decision shape, as shown in Figure 10, below. We addeda connected Process (rectangle) shape on the right and another connected Decision (diamond) shape at the bottom.
12. 
    Figure 10: More shapes added to the flowchart
12. As you can see within Figure 10, above – there are two options emanating from the 'Are you happy?' decision shape. Decisionshapes typically have more than one output emanating from them so as to create a decision – in this case, the decision will be based on whether theanswer to the “Are you happy?” question is Yes or No. We therefore need to identify the two emanating connectors asYes or No to make this flowchart sequence logical. To do that, you need to place text boxes with Yes andNo captions next to the relevant connectors – this is explained in ourFormatting Connectors within Flowcharts tutorial.
13. Once you add Yes and No captions to your connectors, your flowchart will look similar to the one shown inFigure 11, below.
14. 
    Figure 11: Flowchart with Yes and No captions
14. Continue adding flowchart shapes and link them with connectors. Finally, you will need to add a 'Stop' Terminator shape to completeyour flowchart, as shown in Figure 12, below.
15. 
    Figure 12: Complete Flowchart
15. Save your documents often!